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Ripple Dedicated to Anthony Brown, and all those whose lights were snuffed out far too soon. Let's honor their memory by reaching for hope instead of hate.

#acceptance #divide #hate #Hope #Humanity #intolerance #Love #Peace #poem #Poetry #racism #Voice

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Dedicated to my mind-bogglingly amazing friends

Who have stood by me through it all

I love you endlessly

When did we move

through just known

into ever known?

can i cherry pick

the thoughtbeat

when

i looked at you

you looked at me

and we became more

than just two people

we became a purpose

a power

a promise

that your back

would never be unguarded

that you don’t have to pretend

to be someone else

that adversity will never

drive me away

we both know that

spite-soaked barbs

brain-flayed outrage +

heartbreak hatreds

will always

haunt the world’s footprints

forcing even you to falter

but i will be there

my shoulder braces yours

my smile reminds you of your own

my hand keeps yours level

i am your souldier

as you are mine

This poem is dedicated to my mind-bogglingly amazing friends who have stood by me through it all. I love you endlessly Dedicated to my mind-bogglingly amazing friends Who have stood by me through it all I love you endlessly…

#bond #connection #friend #friends #friendship #Hope #life #Love #personal #poem #Poetry #relationships #Trust

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Ruiseñor Childhood fragments curl in abrazando el día cuando you first graced the earth. Ya me acuerdo…

#day #family #Generation #Hope #inspire #Love #mother #share

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Exhale

part of me yet seeks to be

still.

exhale

without soulclawing for air

in a pain-murmuring body

holding itself hostage.

daily, i hunt armistice,

for tenuous relief

from this sisyphean shell,

forever roiling with

ebbs + echoes

of bonerooted pain-

newly validated

by nodding white coats.

the nightmare breathes inside my skin

i feel it

before my eyelids even flutter open

it whispers me awake

an agony…

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#acceptance #autoimmune #Chaos #Disease #Doubt #emotions #Fibromyalgia #fight #Health #Hope #Humanity #hurt #Identity #illness #Joy #life #Pain #People #poem #Poetry #potential #power #reflection #Self #self-portrait #soul #spirit #strength #struggle #Truth

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Friend

where there is darkness, you seek hope

where there is division, you spark unity

where there is pain, you share strength

you may be an inspiration to others

but that doesn’t neon blaze from your forehead

it’s not a badge you can flash merrily

or a “get out of jail free” card to chase away demons

sometimes you can’t look your reflection in the eyes

sometimes you despair of ever being a whole self,

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#acceptance #change #Community #connection #friendship #future #Hope #Humanity #Identity #life #Love #Pain #People #poem #Poetry #power #Self #soul #spirit #strength #Voice

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Charlottesville 

Image credit goes to Jim Bourg at Reuters

when the light dims

and hate from the shadows

explodes into rancor headlines

man reveals beast 

our true colors, warped 

painting promises of a dark Prometheus 

they seek rabid rapture in oppression

hollow edged fists bear torches

obscuring our triumph, our passion, our poignancy

illuminating our savagery, our inhumanity, our bloodlust

the racism coiling…

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#aftermath #bigotry #Charleston #Community #condemn #fight #hatred #Hope #hurt #protest #racism #unity #Violence

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Exile

unfamiliar Deja vu 

reverbs like a wraith boomerang

surfacing from untapped depths 

i haven’t been here before

this time 

this place

this person

so why does recognition lurk

hesitantly by blurred borders?

why do i feel 

i have made this choice 

before? 

exiled within my own skin 

i exist like an 

unstrung Rumpelstiltskin

cursed with memory loss

certain there is something

i must recognize

to…

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Linger Morning dangles from my fingertips as I wake still half-submerged in Dream's disruptive cocoon. Although the sun…

#day #dream #dreams #fantasy #introspection #mind #night #personal #poem #Poetry #reflection #sleep #spirit #Writing

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Potential Prospects stir within me peeking through the murk of disarming doubts and missed opportunities to eye tomorrow speculatively…

#dream #dreams #emotion #emotions #future #Hope #hopes #Humanity #life #past #Persevere #personal #poem #Poetry #potential #Self #self-portrait #spirit #Truth #Writing

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Endure Escher has trapped me in his sadistic staircase cornered me like a cage burst animal his indifferent hand…

#adversity #chronic pain #chronicle #diary #fight #fighter #Health #Hope #hospital #medical #obstacle #outlet #Pain #patient #poem #Poetry #spirit #strength

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United We Stand

I usually don’t mix politics with poetry, especially not in this blog. But after the shame, the tears, the horrors and despair I’ve both witnessed and suffered this week, I had to speak out. WordPress community, I hope you all feel the same!

#Trump does not represent my United States. No matter what the future holds, his voice is #notourvoice— especially considering half our country didn’t vote.…

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#belief #Community #election #fear #fight #Hope #Love #obama #politics #potus #president #Together #trump #unity

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Beautiful He told me i was ugly so I knew i was beautiful i wish that applied to only one man in my life…

#abuse #acceptance #empower #growth #hate #healing #hurt #Identity #Love #Pain #poems #Poetry #Self #soul #spirit #strength #survivor

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10 Seconds

For Lucy & Cory

I met you in a strange land

Full of fireworks, bing long and awed faces

Thrown together, our sanctuary grew

An island of foreigners in a sea of locals

We could easily have become friends

Conveniently losing touch when we returned

To our western reality

Instead, we chose to become family

Playing Phase 10 on your porch

— Not at all competitively, of course —

While peeking through…

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#China #connection #Couple #family #friendship #Love #memories #poem #Poetry #wedding

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Letters

lines drip bald-faced

down a seemingly empty page

after a daring jailbreak

from an unfiltered unconscious

angels & angles

demons & dreams

crisscrossing

while memories insidiously

waltz their way

around the edges

masquerading as mothballs

dipping & clinging

to paper particles

how can a bronze beveled vowel

here

a crooning consonant curve

there

possibly hope to convey the bottomless

endless…

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#Humanity #introspection #journey #life #memory #personal #poem #Poetry #Self #sharing #spirit #vulnerability #Writer #Writing

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Speak consonants cause traffic jams in the rush to escape their white ridged confines elbowing aside luckless scowling vowels…

#communicate #connection #life #Love #memory #Passion #poem #Poetry #Self #share #talk #Truth

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Recollect i can't stop spending the mishmash currency of coin-cast moments stacked neatly on an unevenly varnished…

#change #choices #dreams #emotions #feelings #memories #moments #poem #Poetry #reflection #thoughts

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Mama's girls welcoming Mama's boy! #thecutest #love #mamascrew (at St. John's Episcopal Church, North Haven, CT)

#thecutest #mamascrew #love